Thursday, May 26, 2011

In addition to beading, I like to work with metal now and then. This past weekend, I got to expirement with etching and some embossing. I think most of the results turned out pretty well. What do you think?

Quote: "We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."
Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)

Thursday, May 19, 2011

I will assume that you are all cool, and thus are watching Doctor Who on BBC and or BBCA. In which case, like me you loved this past week's episode written by Neil Gaiman, in which we finally got to meet the Tardis.

If you have read any of Mr. Gaiman's work (which again, shouldn't be in question for those who are cool...)- such as Caroline, American Gods, Sandman - you could see so much of him in this episode. I won't go into too much detail as I don't want to spoiler and I suck at writing reviews, but it was a BLAST!

And it inspired this lovely pattern below. It was initially conceived as a ring, but is a little larger than I generally like my rings. So, for those of us with small hands, it will make a lovely skinny bracelet. For those with larger hands, a great ring. It shows the Tardis flying through the cosmos! My only reqret is that I couldn't find a way to make it say Police.

Tardis Facts:
1) Tardis stands for Time and Relative Dimension in Space
2) The Tardis is notoriously bigger on the inside
3) The Tardis can change shape to fit into any enviroment, however, it's chameleon circuit broke and now it is stuck as a 1960's British Police Box
4) The Tardis is supposed to be run by 6 people, this is why the Doctor is always running madly around the console
5) The Tardis inhabited a living being once before, when it possessed Rose Tyler during the Bad Wolf story line.

Quote: ...and then we discovered it wasn't the Robot King after all, it was the real one. Fortunately I was able to reattach the head.
The Doctor - The Doctor's Wife

Friday, May 13, 2011

So I did some traveling for work a few weeks ago. Remembering all the beading magazine writers talking about beading on planes, I took my beads with me.

BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER!

My favorite bead mavens must all travel first class, cause back in economy, there is no room to bead. There is not even room to get into your bag to look at beads. There was only room to be elbowed by the guys on either side of me. So, with this in mind, on the return trip I checked my bead bag. It was a nice substantial bag and I had everything well packed. Should be safe... or not.

A couple of my boxes broke, a couple of the tubes within them broke, delicas everywhere, tiny pearls everywhere.... blah. So, this mess is why I was unmotivated to bead or even talk about beading for a bit.

This week, I decided to get over it and start a new project. Wanted to make a peyote ring with a hidden message. While I technically succeeded, I am not thrilled with it. Need to work on ways to hide the overlapping section... maybe some crystal clusters....

Finally, feel free to check out this month's Etsy Beadweavers Challenge entries. Voting runs through the 15th of May.

Quote: A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41